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MacBook Users Seeing 'Service Battery' Message After Mavericks Upgrade

Jason D. O'Grady, ZDNet

It would appear that the recent spate of "Service Battery" warnings after installing Mavericks are either erroneous, or the new operating system is more sensitive to potential battery problems.

OS X Mavericks Having Data Issues On Some External Drives

Daniel Starkey, Tom's Hardware

According to growing complaints from the Apple Support Communities forum, some users have found that their Western Digital and LaCie hard drives have been turning up… empty after upgrading to the new OS.

Waiting For The Next Great Technology Critic

Matt Buchanan, New Yorker

The point, ultimately, is that there is more need than ever for regular technology criticism in two of the most important newspapers in the country—but it needs to be deeper, and different, than what Pogue and Mossberg did.

Olloclip 4-In-1 iPhone Lens Review: Creative Possibilities Times Four

Susie Ochs, Macworld

The Olloclip 4-in-1 is a solid package, and it goes a long way in making you think of your iPhone as a real camera instead of just a phone that takes pictures.

Acclaimed Notebook Calculator App Soulver Finally Updated And Redesigned For iOS 7

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

iPhoto 9.5 Review: Uninspiring Mavericks Update Doesn't Change Enough

Jackie Dove, Macworld

That said, the improved connections with iCloud and the inclusion of new Photo Stream capabilities—really more an iCloud feature than an iPhoto feature—are welcome, as are any performance improvements as a result of 64-bit support. However, users pining for a refreshed app with an updated interface, along with a few more creative bells and whistles, may be disappointed with this solid but uninspiring update of Apple’s premiere consumer photo app. Hopefully, the next full scale release of iPhoto will deliver the high energy creative jolt that Apple is famous for.

Review: Hands On With The New Haswell Chip iMac

Michael deAgonia, Computerworld

The current lineup should serve you well for years to come.

Pages 5.0 For Mac Review: Apple Writes A New Chapter For Its Word Processing App

Jeffery Battersby, Macworld

I like the new Pages and I like it a lot. Not for a massive new set of features. Not because it’s completely stripped down. But because it appears that Apple is setting a foundation for amazing things to come.

Anomaly 2 Arrives For iOS With Promises Of PC-quality Gaming On Mobile

Chris Parsons, iMore

Anomaly 2 takes the RTS tower offense concept from Anomaly Warzone Earth to the next level.

iPad Airs Start Arriving At Apple Stores And Resellers As Supply Expected To Be Plentiful

Mark Gurman, 9 To 5 Mac

At Apple Stores, we’ve heard that multiple large stores across the United States have already received upwards of 500-1000 units of the iPad Air, indicating that the supply of the new tablet will likely be plentiful at launch. We’ve heard similar from resellers of iPads internationally with some chains indicating that they will have a solid number of iPad Airs on tap for Friday. These stores say even more supply is promised for the next couple of weeks…

Apple Says Fix Incoming For 13-Inch Retina MacBook Pro Trackpad & Keyboard Issues, Offers Interim Solution

Mike Beasley, 9 To 5 Mac

According to the new support page, Apple is aware of the issue and working on a permanent fix. The fix will likely come by way of a software update via the Mac App Store. Until it is released, the issue can be remedied by closing the computer for a full minute and then waking it back up.

Connect To SMB & NAS Network Shares In OS X Mavericks

OS X Daily

The Stupidest Trend In Laptop Design Is...

Rambling Around Foo

... numpads on laptop keyboards.

Taiwan Protests Apple Maps That Show Island As Province Of China

Michael Kan, IDG News Service

Taiwan is demanding Apple revise its mapping software and remove a label that describes the island as a province of China, rather than as a sovereign state.

Ditch Mavericks's Mail: Other Email Apps You Can Try

Roman Loyola, Macworld

If the Gmail issue proves to be the last straw for you, it might be time to ditch Mail and find another email client. I’ve gathered the names of programs available for the Mac today; many are free or have a trial version you can try.

13-Inch Retina MacBook Pro Review: Thinner, Lighter, And Faster Never Hurts

James Galbraith, Macworld

You may not know it to look at them, but the latest 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display models are thinner and lighter than the Retina systems they replace. Lighter is always better in a portable—but factor in the new MacBook Pro’s increased battery life and the faster integrated graphics, and you have a laptop you can love.

Numbers 3.0 (2013) For Mac Review - Update To Apple’s Excel-alternative

Mark Hattersley, Macworld UK

Numbers has always been an oddball but it’s not getting more sensible with age. Numbers for Mac OS X doesn’t so much rival Excel as out-manoeuvre it; but is it too leftfield for anybody to truly love?

Pages For Mac Review - Now A Standalone App From Apple

Karl Hodge, Macworld UK

There’s a brand new version of Pages for the Mac that’s free for many users. But it’s dividing fans down the middle.

Microsoft: Apple Is To Blame For Reports Of Poor Windows Battery Life

Mark Hachman, Macworld

Apple's Boot Camp provides a thin layer of code between the operating system and the Mac hardware itself, along with drivers to access the Mac's hardware. Each driver is a bit of code that controls individual components, such as the Wi-Fi radio, for example, or the laptop’s display. But according to Microsoft, the basic Boot Camp installation uses generic or at least un-optimized drivers.

And that can make a difference, Aul said. “Device firmware and buses optimized for particular power states can have a huge impact on battery life if you have something like a radio” that’s not properly tuned, he said.

The iPad Air

John Gruber, Daring Fireball

An obsession with treating “tablets” as an entirely new and separate product category is blinding some observers from what is really going on with the iPad — it is taking over a large segment of the PC industry. As iPad sales have grown, PC sales have contracted. I expect the iPad Air to accelerate both trends — the growth in iPad sales, and the contraction of the PC market.

iPad Air Benchmarks

John Poole, Primate Labs

From a performance standpoint the iPad Air is a great upgrade to the iPad (4th Generation). With most recent Mac updates showing only modest performance improvements, it's exciting to see iOS devices do the opposite with substantial improvements between generations.

First Look: The Next Issue Digital Magazine Service Arrives On iPhone

Bryan M. Wolfe, AppAdvice

First launched in 2012, Next Issue offers subscribers unlimited access to more than 120 of the best and most read magazines in the world, including Sports Illustrated, Vanity Fair, and Wired.

The iPad Air Review

Anand Lal Shimpi, AnandTech

The iPad Air is the most significant upgrade to the 9.7-inch iPad in its history. It’s lighter, more portable, more usable and faster than any previous iPad. It doesn’t fundamentally change what you can do with a tablet, but if you’re in the market for one the iPad Air really is the best iPad to date. Competition is definitely more stiff among the smaller tablets thanks to the Nexus 7, but in the nearly 10-inch tablet space it seems like Apple is going to continue to enjoy a great position there.

Speed And Power Packed Into A Thin iPad Air

Walt Mossberg, All Things D

But this new iPad Air just kept going, clocking a battery life of 12 hours and 13 minutes, which exceeded Apple’s claim by more than 20 percent. The company says its A7 chip, combined with the fact it controls its own operating system, gives the new iPad the ability to tailor under-the-hood processes so unneeded drains on the battery can be minimized.

Bottom line: If you can afford it, the new iPad Air is the tablet I recommend, hands down.

Review: iPad Air

Jim Dalrymple, The Loop

If you have decent sized hands you can type with two thumbs on the iPad in portrait, something I wasn’t really able to do with the last generation iPad without a lot of stretching. Clearly a full-size iPad is not something you will be thumb typing with all the time1, but it does give you an idea of how much smaller the iPad Air is.

The iPad Air –A Truly Mass Market Personal Computer

Ben Bajarin, TechPinions

The iPad Mini weighs .69 pounds and the iPad Air weighs 1 pound. But when you hold them at the same time, the weight difference feels negligible. The iPad Air distributes its weight in a way that holding it and using it feels about as light as the iPad Mini.

The iPad Air is easily the best designed iPad yet.

Apple Claim That iCloud Can Store Passwords “Only Locally” Seems To Be False

Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica

Syncing passwords over the cloud is exactly how iCloud Keychain is supposed to work. What's surprising is Apple's claim that it might work in some other way, just because a user chooses a different method of protecting their data in the cloud.

Shortened Battery Life Found In Some New iPhones

Brian X. Chen, New York Times

The Apple iPhone 5S is supposed to have significantly longer battery life than its predecessors. But for a small number of the new models, a manufacturing defect has caused the battery to drain quickly, according to the company.

“We recently discovered a manufacturing issue affecting a very limited number of iPhone 5S devices that could cause the battery to take longer to charge or result in reduced battery life,” said Teresa Brewer, an Apple spokeswoman. “We are reaching out to customers with affected phones and will provide them with a replacement phone.

Amazon's Cloud Player Music App Now Available For OS X

Chris Welch, The Verge

My Ultimate Developer And Power Users Tool List For OS X (2013 Edition)

Justin Williams, Carpeaqua

This year’s edition of the list takes into account the new tools I am using as part of my transition to working exclusively on iOS 7 and OS X Mavericks, as well as an amateur designer.

Apple Mail “Bug” Turns Out To Be User Script After All

FastMail Weblog

The OS X Mail team have been really helpful in tracking this down. I put them in direct contact with the user to do further debugging. A very embarassed user discovered an applescript he wrote years ago to move mail from OS X Mail’s “semantic junk” folder to the real Junk folder at FastMail where our bayes trainer could learn from it.

No, Apple's Not Trying To "Bust Your Phone"

Brian Barrett, Gizmodo

I don't doubt that Rampell is coming from a place of genuine frustration. But it's misinformed, and worse, misleading. Technology becomes obsolete. Batteries don't last forever. That's not exclusively Apple's problem, nor is it exclusively Apple's fault. And the only thing busting your phone is the steady march of progress.

Review: Flamingo For Mac Looks To Improve On Messages For Mac

Mike Beasley, 9 To 5 Mac

Flamingo is a solid and useful chat client that provides a large improvement over Apple’s messaging solution on the Mac. If you use Google Hangouts or Facebook chat often, you should absolutely give this app a look.

Adobe Security Breach Worse Than Originally Thought

Jared Newman, Macworld

This month’s security breach at Adobe is turning out to be much more widespread than the company first let on. At least 38 million users have been affected by the early October incident.

OS X 10.9 Brings Fast But Choppy Thunderbolt Networking

Iljitsch Van Beijnum, Ars Technica

If you open your network settings in the System Preferences after upgrading to OS X 10.9 "Mavericks", you'll be informed that a new "Thunderbolt Bridge" network interface was added to the system. So it's now possible to network two Macs over Thunderbolt. Let's take our new network for a spin.

Twitter Apps For iOS, Android And Web Get In-Stream Video And Image Previews

Matthew Panzarino, TechCrunch

New Vulnerability Found In Apps Using Wi-Fi

Nicole Perlroth, New York Times

On Tuesday, mobile security researchers will demonstrate a simple attack that exploits a vulnerability in the code within apps that run on Apple’s iOS operating system. The vulnerability allows attackers to persistently alter the server URL from which a mobile app loads its data, so that instead of loading data from realserver.com, for instance, the attack makes the app load data from attacker.com, without the victim knowing. Attackers could use that data to load malicious links, or insert fake, market-moving news into a news app.

iTunes Radio Normalizes Playback Volume With Sound Check

Kirk McElhearn, Kirkville

Game Center Now Allows Developers To Give Cheats The Red Card

Ben Lovejoy, 9 To 5 Mac

iOS 7 introduced a number of new developer tools to help block Leaderboard spam, including the ability to set realistic maximum scores and reject unsigned submissions. This latest addition goes one step further in allowing developers to directly zap fake scores after the event.

Microsoft Gives Bing The iOS 7 Treatment Along With New Logo And Color Palette

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Apple: The iPhone 5C Is Our 'Mid-tier' Model

Marc Perton, Engadget

Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks Review

Dann Berg, The Verge

Everyone should upgrade to Mavericks, though. There's no good reason not to — it's free, it's faster, it has a few new and improved apps. You'll probably see your battery life improve after a few days. But don't expect a radical rethinking of what a desktop computer can or should be — that job seems destined for a future version of iOS.

Apple Hasn't Demoed An iPad On Stage All Year

Rene Ritchie, iMore

Popular To-Do Apps Clear, Clear+ Gain Background Refresh Option

Brent Dirks, AppAdvice

Intensify Is A Powerful Image Editor For Mac OS

Mel Martin, TUAW

Intensify is a new Mac app designed to dramatically enhance your images without requiring you to have deep knowledge of editing and adjustments. I would put it solidly between the iPhoto's editing tools and Photoshop.

The Great Apple Lull

Dan Frommer, SplatF

I’d say give it another year. Tim Cook has now been chumming the water for a while, and if Apple was just going to keep rolling out iterative updates to the iPhone and iPad until we all fell asleep, it’d be a waste to keep bringing up the whole “new categories” line. It’s not like he just showed up when Steve Jobs retired. Tim has been around this whole time, and doesn’t seem like the bullshit-artist type.

Apple: Future Versions Of OS X To Be Free, $900M Increase In Revenue Deferral Due To Free Software

Matthew Panzarino, TechCrunch

Oppenheimer’s statements during the call indicate that future versions of OS X will also be free. This, along with iWork updates and free copies for each purchaser of Mac and iOS hardware, would contribute to a $900 million sequential increase in net revenue deferred for software upgrade rights and non-software services in the December quarter.

Apple Completed 15 'Strategic' Acquisitions In Fiscal 2013

Juli Clover, MacRumors

According to Tim Cook, Apple has "great products" coming in categories that Apple does not currently participate in.

Apple CEO: We've Locked Up 94% Of Education Tablet Market

Roger Cheng, CNET

"I've never seen a market share that high before," Cook said Monday during a conference call with analysts. [He] said the education business represented a potential $1 billion market for Apple.

Apple Reports $7.5 Billion Fourth Quarter Profit

Jim Dalrymple, The Loop

Apple on Monday reported its fourth quarter results, posting revenue of $37.5 billion and a profit of $7.5 billion. This compares to revenue of $36 billion and net profit of $8.2 billion in the year-ago quarter.

Mac Sales Falling, But Falling Less Than PCs

Peter Cohen, iMore

For Apple's fourth quarter for its fiscal year 2013, Mac sales were down year over year, but Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer says that the Mac is still doing better than - and gaining marketshare against - the PC. Mac sales saw a 7 percent drop year over year, but market research firm IDC reports that the PC market overall saw a 10 percent decline.

Mysterious Mac Pro Posters Appear

Jeff Carlson, TidBITS

Glass Staircase Tread Crashes At New Store

IfoApplestore.com

Just 23 hours before the Saturday morning grand opening of the Shanghai iapm (China) Apple store, a glass staircase tread from the spiral staircase linking the store’s two levels broke and damaged the floor underneath. According to people waiting for the grand opening, the tread fell out of its mounting at about 10 a.m. and crashed in pieces on the stone flooring.

Iphone Touchscreen Accuracy – A Lesson In Understanding Test Requirements And Goals

Neglected Poential

Parallels 9 And Fusion 6 Run Neck And Neck In Virtualization Contest

Rob Griffiths, Macworld

Both Fusion and Parallels do an amazing job of turning your Mac into a multi-OS powerhouse. Reaching a decision about which one is better is nearly impossible, as they share many features, perform similarly, and generally do the same things. My advice from last year holds: Download both programs’ free trials, test them with your hardware and software, and pick the one that works better for you. You really can’t go wrong either way.

How To Use iCloud Keychain

Joe Kissell, Macworld

Sherlocked: How Mavericks Is Making Some Apps Obsolete

Alex Hern, The Guardian

It's a common refrain amongst developers placed in a sticky situation. "There's a huge list of other stuff that Moom does that Mavericks doesn't," says Rob Griffiths, a partner at developers Many Tricks. Moom, one of the company's programs, is favoured by users who have multiple monitors and want to have a different app running full-screen on each – a feature now built in to Mavericks.

"You can lay out your windows as you like, save that layout, and call it up when you wish. You can even have the layout activate automatically when you add or remove a display, as many do with laptops … I think you get the idea: we're not worried about Mavericks impacting Moom in any negative way."

Livescribe's Beautiful New Smartpen Turns Pen And Paper Into Apps And Pixels

David Pierce, The Verge

We may be constantly staring into our phones and laptops, but Livescribe CEO Gilles Bouchard says pen and paper are more popular than ever — and he has data to back it up. We want to write and draw the way we always have, he says, but we also want all the sharing, instant access, and searchability that come with our many apps and websites. So Bouchard and Livescribe set out to build a device to bridge that gap, and today it's announcing the result — the new Livescribe 3.

Alfred 2.1

Agen G. N. Schmitz, TidBITS

iPad Art Gains Recognition In New Hockney Exhibit

Martha Mendoza, Associated Press

Happily hunched over his iPad, Britain's most celebrated living artist David Hockney is pioneering in the art world again, turning his index finger into a paintbrush that he uses to swipe across a touch screen to create vibrant landscapes, colorful forests and richly layered scenes.

Review: Refinements Add Up In New Mac System

Anick Jesdanun, Associated Press

Mavericks goes far in extending an already powerful operating system for desktops and laptops, without taking away the aspects that makes it easy to use.

Review: RoboMouse HD Is A Classic Strategy Game Reinvented For The iPad

Sarah Guarino, 9 To 5 Mac

RoboMouse HD is a new iPad strategy and tower-defense game from LongKoo Studio. It features a straightforward premise and easy-to-pickup gameplay mechanic that can be quickly learned, but takes time to master. While the strategy game genre is not lacking for entries, RoboMouse HD is a fun addition to the existing landscape that can provide hours of fun.

What Apple Could Learn From McDonald’s Is… Architecture?

Philip A. Stephenson, Quartz

1) Everything gets old.

2) Change is inevitable.

Well... I sure hope Apple has enough money to revamp its stores when the current design doesn't cut it anymore.

Mac OS 10.9 – Infinity Times Your Spam

FastMail Weblog

Did Mavericks Kill Your SMB Network Drive Access? Here's A Fix

Mel Martin, TUAW

iMac SMC Firmware Update 1.1

Agen G. N. Schmitz, TidBITS

The release improves the Power Nap feature in OS X 10.9 Mavericks so that it runs silently while your iMac is sleeping without spinning the fan.

iOS Daylight Savings Time Bug Strikes Again

Michael Grothaus, TUAW

Though iOS 7 devices did indeed roll back the clocks automatically as they were supposed to, when users open the Calendar app and look at Day view the current time line appears one hour after the actual time -- even though it displays the right time.

iPad Air Vs. MacBook Air: Which Apple Portable Should You Get?

Rene Ritchie, iMore

Both are ultra light, super thin, and incredibly long lasting, but one has a keyboard and runs OS X and the other a multitouch and iOS 7. Both can be absolutely killer on a plane, in an office, or around the house. But which one is better for you?

Ryan Jones On Directing Weather Line For iPhone

Rene Ritchie, iMore

The director for Weather Line, Ryan Jones, was gracious enough to expound on why the world needed another weather app, what iOS 7 allowed them to do with it, and what his role entailed.

Enabling System-Controlling Utilities In Mavericks

Adam C. Engst, TidBITS

LaunchBar, TextExpander, Keyboard Maestro, RescueTime — these and many other utilities have one thing in common: they rely on Mac OS X’s support for “assistive devices” to perform tasks that are normally forbidden to applications.

AppleScript, Automator, And Automation Improvements In Mavericks

Don Southard, MacStories

iPad Mini For Content Creation

Federico Viticci, MacStories

I believe that the argument about the iPad mini being better at content consumption has been largely made up by people who never actually used the iPad mini for work – or at all. Of course, like any other device, its design comes with trade-offs: the keyboard is smaller than the iPad Air in landscape mode; the first-generation model didn’t have a Retina display; and, in general, touch targets and documents are smaller than the full-size iPad. But these weaknesses have, in my opinion, far stronger positive aspects on the flip side: the iPad mini is more comfortable to hold and type on, especially in portrait mode; its lightness is still unparalleled; the 7.9-inch screen is small enough for bags but big enough for reading and typing.

Here Are 5 Ways iOS 7 Can Help The Enterprise

Tim Panagos, GigaOM

There are dozens of new features aimed at business use, making this the most enterprise-friendly release of any iOS incarnation to date. Most of these features require that apps incorporate them into new releases and so will take months to become evident to end-users.

iMovie For iOS Projects No Longer Work On The Mac

Serenity Caldwell, Macworld

By and large, I quite like iMovie’s new look and feel—but in Apple’s revamp, the editing program has lost one of its more-favored features: importing projects between iOS and the Mac. In addition, some users are complaining about being unable to upgrade to the newest version of iMovie on their Macs as their machines lack the right video cards.

16GB Vs. 32GB Vs. 64GB Vs. 128GB: Which iPad Air Or Retina iPad Mini Storage Capacity Should You Get?

Georgia, iMore

Thoughts And Observations Regarding This Week’s Apple Event Introducing The iPad Air And Retina iPad Mini

John Gruber, Daring Fireball

iStat Menus Gets Updated With Mavericks Fixes, New Mac Support, More

Peter Cohen, iMore

iStat Menus embeds a menu item on your Mac that provides you with extensive, customizable details about the operation of your computer.

Benchmarks: Upgraded Graphics Boost New 13-Inch Retina MacBook Pro

James Galbraith, Macworld

The results show that the internal updates in new pro laptops help to increase performance in nearly every application.

Turn Your iPhone Into A High-power Digital Microscope For Around $10

Mike Wehner, TUAW

Late-2013 15-Inch Retina MacBook Pro Review: Apple’s High-Performance Notebook Tops The Field

Darrell Etherington, TechCrunch

Apple’s 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pros with Retina Displays are simply the best available notebooks, and which you choose depends totally on budget and priorities over anything else. If power is what you’re looking for, look no further than the 15-inch reviewed here.

OS X 10.9 Mavericks And Ebooks: The Good, The Bad And The Confusing

Kirk McElhearn, Kirkville

iPad Air Vs. Retina iPad Mini Vs. iPad 2 Vs. iPad Mini: Which iPad Model Should You Get?

Rene Ritchie, iMore

Grove Dock For iPhone: Solid Beauty

Steven Sande, TUAW

Review: Grip & Shoot iPhone Photography Pistol Grip

Ben Coxworth, Gizmag

The device is a pistol grip attachment for the iPhone (4S and higher), allowing users to shoot stills and video one-handed, without having their fingers awkwardly splayed to reach the touchscreen controls.

Apple's New Mac iWork Apps: A Big Step Back In Workflow Automation

Peter Cohen, iMore

What I suspect happened is that Apple needed to streamline development of the new iWork Mac apps by making them as similar as possible to their iOS counterparts. They took the path of least resistance, and we're left with less capable software that's prettier to look at.

That's not something that Mac users should just roll over and accept. Our Macs are more capable than our iPads. And we should insist that developers of Mac apps - Apple and third-parties alike - help us get the most out of that experience, not get in our way.

Class Action OKd In Tech Workers' Salary Claims

Bob Egelko, San Franciso Chronicle

Tens of thousands of engineers and technical workers at Apple, Google and other giant Silicon Valley firms have won a federal judge's approval to pursue a class-action suit against the companies for allegedly suppressing wages by agreeing not to recruit or hire each other's employees.

Sync Contacts And Calendars With Your iPhone Via iTunes? Not In Mavericks You Don't

Jonathan Seff, Macworld

The ability to sync contact and calendars stored locally on your Mac with an iOS device is gone.

First Look: Tweetbot 3 For iPhone Revisits A Classic

Dan Moren, Macworld

It’s clear a lot of time and work has gone into the app. There’s a heavy emphasis on physics: Tap the account switcher in the top left corner and you’ll see your accounts “bounce” into place as the interface fades into the background. Tap and hold on one of the customizable buttons on the toolbar and the alternative options will not just slide but fly into view.

IM+ Updated For iOS 7, Makes Off-the-Record Messaging Free For All Chats

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

IM+ is a messenger client for both iPhone and iPad that can combine all your favorite instant messenger clients into one easy to manage place. The new 8.0 version brings with it an updated interface that's been designed with iOS 7 in mind as well as making encrypted messaging free for everyone.

How To View Shared Links In Safari For OS X Mavericks

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

The Shared Links feature in Safari can pull from Twitter and LInkedIn so you can easily access all the links your friends are sharing without ever even visiting each respective website.

Mavericks Fully Fixes 802.11Ac Transfer Speeds In OS X

Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica

Two big takeaways here: first, AFP transfer speeds have improved even more since 10.8.5, on the order of about 21 percent. Second, SMB transfer speeds have finally been fixed—these numbers show a 137 percent increase, well over double the transfer speeds that were possible before. SMB is now on par with AFP speeds.

Vine Updates To Add Drafts And Editing Tools

John-Michael Bond, TUAW

Super Squares Brings Casual Fun To iPhone, iPad

Dave Caolo, TUAW

I don't keep many games on my iPhone, but I am fond of the pick-up-and-play variety -- the type of game you can jump into at any time and enjoy a few rounds. Super Squares (free with in-app purchases) is a good example of this type of game, in that it's effortless to learn, challenging and fun.

Beautiful Red Mac Pro Designed By Jony Ive For Charity Auction Is Unveiled

Brent Dirks, AppAdvice

Just listed on the Sotheby’s site, the pictured red Mac Pro is expected to fetch between $40,000 and $60,000.

Theodolite Goes To The Great Wall Of China

Craig A. Hunter

That means Apple shot this video, did editing, production, etc., within the last 20 days in order to show it during the Special Event.

Wow.

Use Automator To Launch Apps With Your Voice In Mavericks

Thorin Klosowski, Lifehacker

No Surprise Here: Teardown Reveals You Won't Fix The Latest MacBook Pro Yourself

Jared Newman, Macworld

LinkedIn Intro’s Security Nightmare

Marco Arment

Apple better already be paying attention to this. While it’s within the technical capability of iOS MDM profiles, it’s almost certainly violating the spirit of any common-sense rules or standards.

Apple Lists Countries Where New iCloud Keychain Feature Is Available

Mark Gurman, 9 To 5 Mac

Apple has updated its support website with a new list of countries in which iCloud Keychain is supported.

I didn't know that iCloud Keychain was limited geographically.

First-look: Keynote For Mac, iOS, And iCloud

Joe Kissell, Macworld

All versions of Keynote use the same file format, so you can safely make changes to your presentation on any platform and trust that those changes will remain intact when you view the preso on other platforms.

There is at least one exception, though: The iOS and Web versions of Keynote are limited to the fonts Apple built in, so if you transfer a presentation from the Mac that includes other fonts, you’ll still see a warning message that the text may appear differently.

How To Use Mavericks’ New Tools To Boost Your Battery Life

Kif Leswing, Wired

Along with that automatic battery savings, Mavericks includes a powerful suite of tools that can extend your laptop’s life even longer.

CoverMe iPhone App Review: Secure Texting And Calling

Tucker Cummings, Tapscape

Chat-Like OS X Email App 'Unibox' Now Available In Mac App Store

Juli Clover, MacRumors

OS X Mavericks Review: Apple’s Mac Operating System Has A Need For Speed

Darrell Etherington, TechCrunch

Mavericks is free and Mavericks is very good. Apple has really turned the business of desktop software on its head with this update, and there’s no reason not to update – in fact, there’s every reason to make the software change as soon as you can. Even if you’re not particularly drawn by any single new big feature, everyone will find something to love among all the little changes Apple has baked into the 10th and latest iteration of OS X.

Things For Mac Gets OS X Mavericks Support

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MacBook Pro With Retina Display Review (15-Inch, 2013)

David Pierce, The Verge

This is a 15-inch laptop that can do everything. If you don’t want to do everything, buy something else — there are plenty of good, cheaper, lighter, smaller laptops out there, including a handful made by Apple.

But just know this: my back may hurt a little more than yours, and my wallet might be a little lighter, but I played Portal 2 on the subway last night. It was awesome.

Apple iCloud Keychain In OS X Mavericks Gets Mixed Reviews

Antone Gonsalves, CSO

iMovie 10 Review For OS X Mavericks

Chris Burns, SlashGear

This version of iMovie takes on essentially everything offered up in previous editions and packages it up in a newly simplified format. With iMovie 10 comes the transition away from an editing suite and toward a do-all movie hub for Apple computers. The same is true of iMovie on iOS, an app that appears nearly identical to the desktop software – save the processing power the desktop version still holds over the mobile iteration.

Why iBooks For Mac Matters (Goodbye, PDF!)

Liz Castro, Pigs, Gourds,And Wikis

Apple's release of iBooks for Mac in its new Mavericks operating system is a huge step for ebooks and EPUB because it makes EPUB available where people want to use it: on their desktops. The fact that this is the very same format—and the very same files—that works in their ereaders and tablets is icing on the cake.

Apple Issues Two Late-2013 iMac Updates To Address Power Nap And USB Issues

Mike Beasley, 9 To 5 Mac

Mavericks Is Breaking Multi-display Setups For Some

Mike Wehner, TUAW

Apple Stores Will Open At 8 AM November 1 For iPad Air Launch

Steven Sande, TUAW

Hands-on With iPhoto For iOS And OS X

Jackie Dove, Macworld

The most radical visual revision to iPhoto comes to the iOS version, and the changes are mostly visual. Old hands with the Mac program will find their way around as they did before.

Ulysses III V1.1

Ben Brooks, The Brooks Review

This is a really great writing app — the best out there and I highly recommend it.

Apple TV Software Updated To Version 6.0.1 With Improved Stability And Performance

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

The Value Of Zero-priced Software

Horace Dediu, Asymco

Tweetbot 3 Review: Human After All

Federico Viticci, MacStories

For me, Tweetbot’s feature set is still unparallaled and the additions that have been brought to version 3.0 make the app even faster and more reliable when it comes to loading timeline gaps, opening web views, or using the URL scheme. Tweetbot 3 is the most powerful Twitter client I have on my iPhone.

Changed My Mind On This One Thing With Braces

Brent Simmons, Inesential.com

Updated: Some Disney Movies Are No Longer In iTunes Including Titles Previously Purchased

Bryan M. Wolfe, AppAdvice

Whither iWork?

Nigel Warren, Rarebit Studio

The fact that iWork on the Mac has lost functionality isn't because Apple is blind to power users. It's because they're willing to make a short-term sacrifice in functionality so that they can create a foundation that is equal across the Mac, iOS, and web versions.

Scrivener 2.5

Agen G. N. Schmitz, TidBITS

Adding compatibility with OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Literature & Latte has released Scrivener 2.5 now includes support for tags when saving and exporting.

Mixed AppleScript Signals

And Now It's All This

But improvements in the AppleScript language itself are like the proverbial tree falling in a forest. If no applications bother to use AppleScript, do those improvements exist?

Pages 5: An Unmitigated Disaster

Pierre Igot, Betalogue

We Mac power users have been complaining about the “dumbing down” trend in computing that the mobile era has ushered in. Now it’s definitely come to hurt us in a big way. It’s as if the entire iWork team of engineers has been replaced by iOS specialists with little or no interest in the needs of “prosumers” and the like.

First-look: Pages For Mac, iOS, And iCloud

Jeffery Battersby, Macworld

The Mac App Store Is Upgrading Illegal And Trial Software For Free

Aaron Souppouris, The Verge

Along with a free update to OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Apple promised owners of its iWork and iLife suites free upgrades to the latest versions, as well as anyone that bought a Mac after October 1st. However, thanks to a flaw in the company's Mac App Store, even users with trial copies are being given free editions of Apple's new software. More worryingly for Apple, users downloading illegal software are being given legitimate copies in exchange.

Open Transport Gone

Brent Simmons, Inesential.com

This affects almost nobody. But it does affect some people.

Apple Posts iPad Air 'Pencil' Ad, 'Life On iPad', And 'Introducing iPad Air' Videos

Rene Ritchie, iMore

Hazel 3.2 Adds Mavericks Tagging Support

Federico Viticci, MacStories

With New iWork, Apple Spotted The Problem But Declined To Fix It

John Timmer, Ars Technica

If you look at the changes objectively, you can see exactly why they probably were considered good ideas at the design phase. It's just that these new tweaks shouldn't have survived any reasonable attempt at user testing.

AppleScript And Automator Gain New Features In OS X Mavericks

Steven Sande, TUAW

With OS X Mavericks, it appears that Apple has added some features that will help "self-developers" who want to add their own capabilities to their Macs and commercial apps. On the other hand, there are fewer scriptable items available in many of the new Apple apps...

Having Trouble With TextExpander On Mavericks? Here's How To Fix It

Joseph Keller, iMore

Users need to enable system support for TextExpand in Mavericks, which is done in the Security & Privacy preference pane.

LinkedIn’s Intro Feature Is Very Cool And A Spectacularly Bad Idea

Matthew Panzarino, TechCrunch

This proxy server is what is used to intercept (yes, as in grab, open and modify) your email and inject the code that makes Intro possible. Apparently there aren’t any humans involved in the process, and one would pray that your email contents remain un-readable somehow but I’m not sure how that’s possible.

Enable Subtle Fading Transition Effects In iOS 7 To Replace The Zoom Motions

OS X Daily

If all the crazy user interface zooming in-and-out effects of iOS 7 aren’t your cup of tea, you will be thrilled to discover there is an alternate subdued option available now which transforms the zoom effects into much more subtle fading transitions.

AirMail For Mac Updated For Mavericks, Interactive Notifications And More!

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

Flash Player Now Sandboxed Under Safari On Mac OS X

Lucian Constantin, IDG News Service

Adobe has worked with Apple to sandbox Flash Player under Safari in Mac OS X, restricting the ability of attackers to exploit any vulnerabilities they might find in the browser plug-in.

Whither Liberal Arts?

Ben Thompson, Stratechery

There are no stories, and there are no humans. It’s clever yet abstract, remarking upon what has happened, without a vision for what is now possible. That’s the thing about stories: the best storytellers – like Jobs – are so compelling because they have vision. They see what we don’t see, and they can’t be more excited to tell us about just that.

Apple’s Announcement Finds ‘Amazingocity’ In The Expected

Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Grid

Two iPads To Tango

MG Siegler, TechCrunch

But for many of us, this is now an extremely hard choice — much harder than I thought it would be. I had thought the retina display on a slower iPad mini would trump the faster performance of the iPad with a 9.7-inch screen. Instead, we have a retina display on an iPad mini that has the same performance as a ridiculously svelte iPad with a 9.7-inch screen.

iWork 13 — A Huge Regression

Clark's Tech Blog

Effectively Applescript support is gone. Numbers doesn’t even have a dictionary. And Pages has had nearly everything removed.

Apple Now Offering Keynote Remote For Free

Michael Grothaus, TUAW

Day One For Mac Updated With Maps-Integrated Features For OS X Mavericks

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Bring Out The Popcorn: Apple Adds New Apple TV Channel For Watching iMovie Theater

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Debuting in the new versions of iMovie for iOS and iMovie for Mac, iMovie integrates with iCloud to let you watch your shared clips, movies, and trailers on all of your Apple devices, including your Apple TV.

Evernote App Updated With Customized Homescreen Layout, Mapping & Improved Saved Searches

Ben Lovejoy, 9 To 5 Mac

Mail In Mavericks Changes The Gmail Equation

Joe Kissell, TidBITS

Apple Mail in Mavericks treats Gmail accounts differently than any previous version of Mail did. Although some of the changes are quite clever, the implementation has flaws. Your mileage may vary, of course, but I’ve seen a number of folks on Twitter complaining about some of the same things I’ve found. Here’s what I’ve observed and what you can (and can’t) do about it.

Xcode 5.0.1 Released With Mavericks SDK And New Build / Debug Features

Scott Buscemi, 9 To 5 Mac

Developers can now use the “Debug Gauge” to see how much power their apps use in realtime. In addition, to go along with the new version of OS X Server that was released today, “continuous integration bots build and test your iOS and OS X apps on OS X Server.”

Apple's Podcasts App Updated To Version 2.0, Brings iOS 7 Styling And Playback Improvements Along With It

Chris Parsons, iMore

iTunes 11.1.2, iBooks Author Update Released With Mavericks Improvements

Mark Gruman, 9 To 5 Mac

What You Need To Know About Apple's Free Apps Policy

Serenity Caldwell, Macworld

Apple made waves during Tuesday’s media event when the company announced that its iLife and iWork suite would be free for customers who buy a new Mac or iOS device. But the apps are also free for users who already have the apps installed, and one app is free, period. Here’s our guide to demystifying Apple’s new pricing structure on its iLife and iWork apps.

How To Make A Bootable Mavericks Install Drive

Dan Frakes, Macworld

Installing Mavericks: What You Need To Know

Dan Frakes, Macworld

How To Install Mavericks Over Leopard

Dan Frakes, Macworld

OS X 10.9 Mavericks: The Ars Technica Review

John Siracusa, Ars Technica

No longer an apex predator, OS X takes some time for introspection.

OS X Mavericks: Tips, Tricks, And Details

Federico Viticci, MacStories

At MacStories, we enjoy finding all the little tweaks and hidden features that come with a brand new OS X version each year. In this post, you’ll find over 70 tips, tricks, and details of OS X Mavericks that we’ve collected throughout the summer since the first beta release the new operating system.

OS X Mavericks: The Review

512 Pixels

Apple Releases OS X 10.9 Mavericks For Free

Adam C. Engst, TidBITS

Breaking from tradition, Apple today released OS X 10.9 Mavericks with no more specific advance notice than the “fall” promise from June’s Worldwide Developer Conference. A more interesting first is that Mavericks will also be free to all Mac users, at least those who can access the Mac App Store, which goes back to 10.6.8 Snow Leopard.

Retina MacBook Pro Gets Major Overhaul

Roman Loyola, Macworld

Apple on Tuesday announced major updates to the Retina MacBook Pro, adding new processors, PCIe-based storage, and Thunderbolt 2. Apple offers five standard configurations of the new laptop.

Apple Reduces non-Retina MacBook Line To A Single Offering

Roman Loyola, Macworld

Apple didn’t make a formal announcement at its event, but if you go to the MacBook Pro section of the Apple Store, you find that Apple now offers only one model of the non-Retina MacBook Pro.

New Mac Pro To Arrive In December

Dennis Sellers, Apple Daily Report

The Mac Pro is available with a 3.7GHz quad-core Intel Xeon E5 processor with Turbo Boost speeds up to 3.9GHz, dual AMD FirePro D300 GPUs with 2GB of VRAM each, 12GB of memory, and 256GB of PCIe-based flash storage starting at $2,999; and with a 3.5 GHz 6-core Intel Xeon E5 processor with Turbo Boost speeds up to 3.9 GHz, dual AMD FirePro D500 GPUs with 3GB of VRAM each, 16GB of memory, and 256GB of PCIe-based flash storage starting at $3,999.

iPad Air And Retina iPad Mini: Our Complete Overview

Federico Viticci, MacStories

Hands-on With The New iPad Air And Retina iPad Mini

Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica

The new tablets fix the iPad's biggest problems, if you're OK with what they cost.

Apple Announces iPad Air, iPad Mini With Retina Display

Josh Centers, TidBITS

Both new iPads feature Apple’s new A7 system-on-a-chip found in the iPhone 5s, 2048-by-1536 resolution Retina displays, new MIMO Wi-Fi technology that uses multiple antennas for faster speeds, wider LTE support, ten hours of battery life, and redesigned 5 megapixel rear cameras with larger pixels and better low-light sensitivity.

iWork App Updates Arrive On The Mac App Store

Chris Parsons, iMore

iOS 7.0.3 Is Released With Fixes For iMessage, Accelerometer Bugs

Serenity Caldwell, Macworld

The update adds support for iCloud Keychain and should provide two big fixes: both to the accelerometer calibration issue some users were seeing and recent iMessage bugs.

Apple Posts Full iPad & Mac Keynote Video, In Case You Missed It!

Chris Parsons, iMore

Pixelmator 3.0 FX Released: Adds Layer Styles, ‘Liquify’ Warping Tools, Mac Pro And Mavericks Optimizations

Benjamin Mayo, 9 To 5 Mac

Apple CEO Tim Cook Joins Board Of China’s Tsinghua University School Of Economics And Management

Catherine Shu, TechCrunch

It’s unclear how joining the SEM’s board could potentially help Apple’s business in China, but it’s another way for Cook to cultivate closer ties to the country that he has said will soon become the company’s most important market.

Apple Pulls HMV Music App After Realizing It Approved A Competing Music Store Mobile

James Trew, Engadget

HMV was selling music downloads via the new app, a massive conflict of interest for Apple, and a big no-no in relation to its Ts & Cs.

Greeting Card Shop For OS X Lets You Create Greeting Cards, Envelopes, More

Dennis Sellers, Apple Daily Report

Apple Will Be Live Streaming Today's iPad Event

Michael Grothaus, TUAW

The Apple Events channel has just showed up on Apple TVs, advertising that Apple will be live-streaming the October, 2013 Apple Special Event today at 10AM PT.

Hulu Plus For iOS Updated With Chromecast Streaming For iPhone

Michael Grothaus, TUAW

How Apple’s Address Book App Could Allow The NSA To Harvest Your Contacts

Dan Goodin, Ars Technica

When synching your Address Book to Gmail, HTTPS encryption isn't an option.

Show The Last Time A File Was Opened & Accessed In Mac OS X

OS X Daily

You can show the precise last time a specific file was opened, an app was launched, or folder was accessed on a Mac, and the information is visible directly in the OS X Finder. There are actually two simple ways to see this file access information, and both are equally useful though as you’ll see they’re best used for slightly different purposes.

The Art Of The Tease: 10 Years Of Apple Event Invites

Jacob Kastrenakes, The Verge

We've collected most of Apple's invitations over the last decade to see just how those hints were hidden, where Apple left no hints at all, and just what it all might mean for the company's next event.

BBM For iOS Available, But You Might Have To Wait In Line

John-Michael Bond, TUAW

OS X Mavericks: Top 10 Features

Sophie Curtis, The Telegraph

As well as new iPads, Apple is expected to release the latest update to its OS X operating system at its 22 October event in San Francisco.

Me, I am waiting for John Siracusa to tell me what to think about Mavericks. :-)

Why iTunes Doesn’t Support FLAC Files

Kirk McElhearn, Kirkville

I can’t see Apple ever supporting FLAC files in iTunes; it’s too risky. Apple created their own lossless format for this reason. It provides the same quality, and is compatible with iTunes and iOS devices.

Why Does Windows Have Terrible Battery Life?

Jeff Atwood, Coding Horror

Apple is clearly doing a great job here. Kudos. If you want a device that delivers maximum battery life for light web browsing, there's no question that you should get something with an Apple logo on it.

Roadshow: Apple 'Spaceship' Has Supporters

Gary Richards, San Jose Mercury News

Apple Expected To Unveil New iPads On Tuesday

Patrick May, San Jose Mercury News

Why Is Using Associated Objects A Hack?

Brent Simmons, Inesential.com

But if you find yourself resorting to runtime functions rather than using the non-runtime APIs as they are designed, you’re probably fighting the frameworks — and fighting the frameworks leads only to bad software and heartbreak.

iPhone 5s Surprises

Jean-Louis Gassée, Monday Note

My wife asked if her iPhone would count steps from within her handbag. Ever the obliging husband, I immediately attended to this legitimate query, grabbed her handbag, and stepped out of the house for an experimental stroll. A conservatively dressed couple walked by, gave me a strange look, and didn’t respond to my evening greeting, but, indeed, the steps were counted.

An Additional Thought On iMessage

Ben Brooks, The Brooks Review

Based on many reader reports that tested this out, your iMessages don’t carry over if you wipe to your iOS device and don’t restore from a backup. Additionally, if you have a new device and send and receive iMessages, and then restore from backup, you will lose the new messages. Seems pretty conclusive that Apple isn’t storing messages for anything longer then “hours”.

Selling Gold: Apple Debuts Its First iPhone 5S TV Spot

Ellis Hamburger, The Verge

It shows liquid gold spilling across the screen, T-1000 style, which eventually takes the shape of an iPhone.

A Lojack For Bikes Lets You Track Down Thieves With Your Phone

Co.Exist

iMessage End-to-End Encryption: We Have To Take Apple’s Word For It

John Gruber, Daring Fireball

If you believe or even suspect that Apple is lying about this, consider at least that Apple is taking an enormous risk by doing so. If they are in fact allowing law enforcement or the NSA to surreptitiously decrypt iMessage content, their corporate credibility will suffer an enormous, perhaps irrevocable loss if it ever comes to light.

Also:

• Why Apple’s claim that it can’t intercept iMessages is largely semantics (Ashkan Soltani, Washington Post)

Small World 2

Matt Thrower, Pocket Gamer

Although the deterministic nature of the game means it lacks some of the megalomaniac thrills of traditional world conquest titles, it's curiously addictive. The slick interface, accessible strategy gameplay, and goofy theme make it just too easy to start game after game.

Google's Hangouts iOS App Says Hello To Voice Calling And Other New Features

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Level Money Simplifies Budgeting

Josh Centers, TidBITS

It offers a simplified way to budget your money and track savings, and although there are certainly security concerns, you have to ask if they’re more worrying than inadvertent overspending. For me, they aren’t.

Tweet7 Is One Of The Best iOS 7 Inspired Twitter Experiences You Could Ask For

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

It's simple, minimalistic, and will provide more than enough functionality for anyone but power users.

Kids Should Hack Their School-Provided iPads

Katherine Mangu-Ward, Slate

That’s how they learn.

Pencil On Paper: Meet The Stylus For FiftyThree's Popular iPad Sketching App

Matt Brian, Engadget

Apple: No, We Can’t Read Your iMessages (And We Don’t Want To, Either)

John Paczkowski, All Things D

“iMessage is not architected to allow Apple to read messages,” said Apple spokeswoman Trudy Muller said in a statement to AllThingsD. “The research discussed theoretical vulnerabilities that would require Apple to re-engineer the iMessage system to exploit it, and Apple has no plans or intentions to do so.”

Yojimbo 4 Review: Stellar Information Manager Adds Better Sync (For A Fee)

Jackie Dove, Macworld

Yojimbo 4’s most compelling aspects are its ease of use and flexibility. You can employ it any way you want and be as granular as you like.

Facebook Updates iOS App With Post And Comment Editing ... And More

Michael Grothaus, TUAW

Fiery RSS Is A New RSS Client That's Specially Designed For iOS 7

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

More notably, it’s designed with the visual style of the latest iteration of Apple’s mobile operating system in mind. From its flat navigation to its simple icons, Fiery looks and feels right at home on iOS 7.

Six iPhones Tested, And They Can't Agree On True North

James Galbraith and Armando Rodriguez, Macworld

On Thursday we ran a series of tests, and found the Compass app in both iOS 6 and iOS 7 reported screwy results across a wide range of iPhones—from the iPhone 4 to the 5s and 5c. We we re-calibrated each phone multiple times, we and often found the results changed wildely from one test to the next.

MacBook Air Flash Storage Drive Replacement Program

Apple

Apple has determined that certain 64GB and 128GB flash storage drives used in the previous generation of MacBook Air systems may fail. These systems were sold between June 2012 through June 2013.

To see if your drive may be affected, go to the Mac App Store, click on Updates and choose the MacBook Air Flash Storage Firmware Update 1.1. The firmware update will test your drive to see if it is affected.

Apple Retains Multitouch Patent Thanks To Patent Office Ruling, Forces Competition To Seek Alternatives

Mariella Moon, Engadget

Code Signing And Mavericks

Craig Hockenberry, Furbo.org

Very simply put, you can no longer sign a bundle (like your .app) if any nested bundle in that package is unsigned. These nested bundles are things like helper executables, embedded frameworks, plug-ins and XPC services.

Hate The Reminders App In iOS 7? Here Are The Best App Store Alternatives!

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

7 Handy Command Line Tips You Don’t Want To Miss

OS X Daily

Read on, you’ll be downloading files, using a better directory listing, killing processes quicker, re-running prior commands as root, finding past commands, and creating new files on the fly in no time.

Microsoft Launches Remote Desktop For Android And iOS, Bringing The Windows Desktop To Phones And Tablets

Emil Protalinski, The Next Web

Researchers Challenge Apple's Claim Of Unbreakable iMessage Encryption

Jeremy Kirk, Macworld

A close look at Apple’s iMessage system shows the company could easily intercept communications on the service despite its assurances to the contrary, researchers claimed Thursday at a security conference.

Apple uses public key cryptography to encrypt iMessages between the sender and the recipient. But its system for managing public keys is opaque, the researchers said, making it impossible to know if iMessages are being sent to a third party such as the NSA.

Also:

• Contrary to public claims, Apple can read your iMessages (Dan Goodin, Ars Technica)

First Magazine Advertisement For iPhone 5S Appears, Highlights Touch ID Sensor

Jordan Golson, MacRumors

Launch Center Pro 2 Review: iOS Utility Automates Everyday App Actions

Marco Tabini, Macworld

With a little discipline, it can have a pretty significant impact on anybody’s productivity, regardless of how technically savvy they may be. Besides, even if you are not the type of person who likes to customize every last aspect of your mobile device, being able to access a wide range of functionality from one interface can speed up everything from calling up the office to visiting your favorite websites. And it’s all from the comfort of a single app.

Apple Slightly Increases Prices Of iPhone 5S And iPhone 5C In France

Benjamin Mayo, 9 To 5 Mac

SoundSoap 3 For Mac OS X Scrubbed To Version 3

Dennis Sellers, Apple Daily Report

Soundness has launched version 3 of their SoundSoap audio noise reduction software. The upgrade sports a new user interface and 64-bit compatibility.

Review: Boxie For iPhone Makes Dropbox Management Even Easier

Sarah Guarino, 9 To 5 Mac

Boxie certainly makes Dropbox pretty, as the app’s tagline claims, but it has a lot of added features and benefits that are not available in the Dropbox app and make Boxie a more efficient tool to use.

Apple’s New Environmental Chief Lisa Jackson To Grow Apple’s Energy Efficiency, Clean Power

Ucilia Wang, GigaOM

Reveal Goes 1.0, Lets Developers Explode Their Apps, Find Bugs Faster

Nick Arnott, iMore

Reveal offers developers the ability to see their applications' view hierarchy in an exploded 3D model. This allows a unique look at how elements in an app are being laid out and rendered, and can make it much quicker to spot the cause of bugs. Reveal also gives the ability to make minor tweaks to an application while running so you can test out small changes without needing to recompile.

Judge Appoints Monitor To Keep An Eye On Apple's E-books Biz

Josh Lowensohn, CNET

How To Recalibrate The Motion Sensors In Your iPhone 5S

Serenity Caldwell, Macworld

Weather Line Review

Federico Viticci, MacStories

I see Weather Line as a combination of a casual weather app for the average user like me and a more advanced solution for the data nerd who wants to know numbers and other weather stats. By sitting somewhere in the middle of these two categories, Weather Line can appeal to both kinds of users thanks to its simple but effective design that uses a line to contextualize forecasts.

iOS 7 User-Experience Appraisal

Raluca Budiu, Nielsen Norman Group

Apple ignored some of the hurdles that Microsoft experienced with flat design and swipe ambiguity in Windows 8. We still have to see whether Apple’s strong design guidelines will protect most app designers from not getting lost in the flat 2D world. Early experience with applications redesigned for iOS 7 is fairly negative: several have worse usability than their iOS 6 versions.

How iOS 7’S Newsstand Hurts Publishers

Glenn Fleishman, TidBITS

Apple made Newsstand the preferred and sensible destination for periodicals when it was launched. It is much less so in iOS 7, and the current experience is worse both for readers trying to find publications to which they subscribe and for publications trying to keep and serve their subscribers.

Comic Life 3 Adds New Filters And More

Steven Sande, TUAW

Oyster's Subscription E-book Service For iPad Open To All

Steven Sande, TUAW

Oyster has a fascinating proposition for avid readers -- unlimited e-books for one low subscription rate of US$9.95.

Jonathan Franzen’s Worst Nightmare

Ariel Bogle, Slate

Apple’s exploring ways to autograph e-books. What does that even mean?

Olloclip Launches 4-In-1 Lens For iPhone, Better Optics And More Macro

Richard Devine, iMore

Ireland Is To Close A Tax Loophole Used By Apple

BBC

But firms would be able to nominate any country as their tax residence.

That includes countries such as Bermuda which offer zero tax rates.

Because of that, tax experts say that the change announced on Tuesday will not make much difference to the amount of tax paid by Apple.

Cupertino Council Clears Huge Apple 'Spaceship' Campus For Liftoff

Patrick May, San Jose Mercury News

Apple's proposed new spaceship-shaped headquarters got a super-charged blast-off Tuesday night when the Cupertino City Council voted unanimously to approve the 2.8-million-square-foot behemoth beside Interstate 280, fulfilling a dream of co-founder Steve Jobs, hatching an iconic landmark for Silicon Valley, and promising more congestion in an already traffic-challenged region for decades to come.

Bluefire Reader 2.0 Features iOS 7 Redesign, Reading Location Sync And More

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Weekly Mac App: CopyClip Is A No-frills Clipboard Manager

Kelly Hodgkins, TUAW

It does what it advertises -- keeping a log of your most recent copied items and saving them for you to reuse. Because it requires a few steps to access your list of copied items, CopyClip is not for the power productivity user. It is perfect for the user who occasionally needs to access their copied items.

Twitter Updates TweetDeck For Mac

Michael Grothaus, TUAW

The new features in TweetDeck 3.3.3 offer some significant improvements that power-users of the app have been asking for for some time. They revolve around the apps ability to Tweet, send DMs, and preview images.

Terminology 3 Review

Federico Viticci, MacStories

Less popular than Drafts but equally impressive in terms of functionality and inter-app communication, Greg Pierce’s Terminology, a dictionary and thesaurus app for iOS, is relaunching today for iOS 7 with a new Universal app that adds sync, configurable actions, and a redesign that matches iOS’ new general aesthetic. I have been testing Terminology 3 for the past few months, and this new version holds up to expectations by honoring Terminology’s tradition of simplicity and bringing powerful new features.

Apple Asks Developers To Begin Submitting Apps For OS X Mavericks Ahead Of October 22 Event

Jordan Kahn, 9 To 5 Mac

Apple Releases New Java Update, Uninstalls Apple-provided Java Applet Plug-ins

Scott Buscemi, 9 To 5 Mac

Tim Cook Talks Hiring Of Angela Ahrendts As Retail Chief, Says She Is ‘Best Person In The World For This Role’

Mark Gruman, 9 To 5 Mac

This is the first time in which the Retail Head’s domain covered both offline and online sales.

Tim Cook says that he long wanted to make the Retail Head role cover both areas of sales, but he has not been confident enough to allow this to happen until he met Ahrendts.

Apple Announces October 22 Event: “We Still Have A Lot To Cover”

John Paczkowski, All Things D

Apple this morning distributed invitations to a special event at which it is expected to unveil the next iterations of the iPad and iPad mini.

In iOS 7, The Final Straw For Newsstand

Marko Karppinen

The segregation of Newsstand apps into the Newsstand folder wasn’t ever a positive aspect of Newsstand, but we were optimistic and thought that perhaps readers would form new habits around it. As an industry, we decided to give it a go. Apart from some early successes, attributable to a first-mover advantage, that was a mistake.

Tap Forms Review: Promising Personal Database Is Feature-filled

Jeffery Battersby, Macworld

Tap Forms 1.5 is a personal database app for your Mac offering a number of useful tools for collecting and managing your personal information. The app makes it easy to create basic relational databases, offers iCloud synchronization, provides data encryption, and includes dozens of pre-fabbed databases you can use as they are or as a foundation for building new databases of your own.

With An Upgrade, Podcasts Move To An Apple App

J. D. Biersdorfer, New York Times

Apple Ups Its Fashion Cred, Names Burberry CEO Angela Ahrendts As SVP Of Retail And Online Stores

Ingrid Lunden, TechCrunch

Today the company announced that it is appointing Angela Ahrendts, currently the CEO of Burberry, as its SVP of retail and online stores. This is a new position at the company that will report directly to Tim Cook, and it takes effect in the Spring of 2014. At the UK-based fashion house, she is getting succeeded by designer Christopher Bailey.

Speed Up The Shutdown Process In OS X

Topher Kessler, CNET

A quick adjustment of the timeout values for key processes can greatly speed up otherwise laggy shutdowns in OS X.

Share Anytime Is A Clever Collaborative Whiteboard App For iPad

Mel Martin, TUAW

Daily iPad App: Rockpack Allows You To Bundle Up Your Favorite Videos Into Shareable Playlists

Kelly Hodgkins, TUAW

An Interesting iOS App Store Upgrade Example

Macdrifter

How To Let Other People Add Photos To Your Shared Photo Streams With iOS 7

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

Loom Gives You One Unified Photo Library, Lets You Reclaim Space On Your iPhone And iPad

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

Loom is a new service that lets you store any photos or videos in order to free up precious storage space on your iPhone or iPad. The best part is that you've then got one unified library that's accessible across all your devices. Loom is available for both iOS and OS X.

1Password 4 For iOS Updated To Support Wi-Fi Sync

Josh Centers, TidBITS

Unwanted iOS 7 Occupying Space On iOS 6 Devices

Adam C. Engst, TidBITS

The workaround suggested to Dave by Apple was to back up to iCloud instead of iTunes, erase the device with Settings > General > Reset > Erase All Content and Settings, and then restore from the iCloud backup.

Explaining Podcasts In iTunes 11.1

Josh Centers, TidBITS

I’ll start by explaining the easy stuff — subscribing and listening to podcasts, and managing stations — before delving into the confusing aspects of managing and syncing podcasts.

The Demise Of The Independent Apple Reseller

Jason D. O'Grady, ZDNet

How could an independent Apple reseller compete with Cupertino's retail juggernaut that gets inventory first, in greater quantity and at cost?

The Case Of The Missing Apple TV Movies

Christopher Breen, Macworld

Create The Perfect Parallax Wallpaper In iOS 7

Jason Cipriani, CNET

Here are some guidelines to follow when creating a wallpaper of your own for iOS 7.

Apple Reuse And Recycling Programme Goes Live In UK Apple Stores Today

Luke Edwards, Pocket-linkt

1Password 4 For Mac Review: State-of-the-art Password Management For Everyone

Marco Tabini, Macworld

Sure, it’s an expensive product, particularly when you compare it with many of the other options out there. However, I’ve taken at least half a dozen password managers for a test-drive in the last 12 months, and 1Password is the only one that truly nails the right balance between security and convenience.

SlowCam 1.0 For The iPhone Has Advantages Over The Built-in iOS Solution

Dennis Sellers, Apple Daily Report

Your City Is Spying On You: From iPhones To Cameras, You Are Being Watched Right Now

Anthony M. Townsend, Salon

When sensors are used without our knowledge or against our will, they become instruments of surveillance. Most of the sensors to create a seamless snooping system are already in place, but the data — credit-card transactions, passport scans at borders, emails, and phone calls — are held by a scattered array of organizations. Linking it all together, sifting through it and assembling dossiers is, for government intelligence agencies and law enforcement, a killer app for smart cities.

Apple's Spaceship Is Landing In The Wrong Place

Troy Wolverton, San Jose Mercury News

Those bucolic scenes of people walking through the forested grounds or eating lunch in the grass near the spaceship? Those will all be employees -- assuming they're able to break away from their desks. Apple says the campus will be closed to the public, and a fence around the perimeter of the property will guarantee that. The public won't even get to use a long-planned creek trail that would have run through the southeastern corner of the property, because Cupertino acquiesced to Apple's paranoid security concerns.

Split My Tab For iPhone Lets You Split, Pay For, And Keep Track Of Who Owes Who When Eating Out

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

How-to: Mark Up And Caption Images Using Preview On OS X

Sarah Guarino, 9 To 5 Mac

Help Save The Seahorse By Stabbing At Your iPhone

Shaunacy Ferro, Popular Science

A new project called iSeahorse aims to bump up the number of people on the lookout for seahorses by allowing anyone—scientist, diver or beach-goer—to catalog any seahorse sightings they experience through an iPhone app and website.

The Core Internet Institutions Abandon The Us Government

Miltton Mueller, Internet Governance Project

Apple: Exclusive Photos Of Company's Planned 'Spaceship' Campus In Cupertino

San Jose Mercury News

Apple Crediting Eligible iOS Users Who Paid For iWork, iLife After September 1St

Mike Beasley, 9 To 5 Mac

Yelp 7.2 Introduces More Streamlined Navigation Scheme And Other UI Tweaks

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Review: How iOS 7 Addresses Bring-your-own-device Security concerns

Jenna Cyprus, Digital Journal

Companies that rely on employees to use their own smartphones and tablets at work have encountered many IT challenges. How can your organization maintain security standards if employees are mixing their professional and personal lives on their devices?

These situations can create the perfect storm of human error, data vulnerabilities, unauthorized access, and software attacks. Fortunately, iOS 7 has introduced some compelling security features, such as Per-app VPN, new MDM configurations, and "open-in" management.

No Future: Apple, iOS 7, iBeacon -- There's No Future For NFC

Jonny Evans, Computerworld

Why Dividends Are Needed (Even Apple Agrees)

Neil Collins, Financial Times

Here Is Apple’s Mailer Asking Cupertino Residents To Support Its New Campus Ahead Of City Council Vote

Alex Wilhelm, TechCrunch

Advice From An Apple Tech: Battle The Dust Bunnies

Chris Barylick, Macworld

While there are no guaranteed means of keeping your Mac cool, one of the best things you can do is ensure that it’s as dust-free as possible, thereby allowing for a better air flow within your computer.

Moving Into A New MacBook Air

J. D. Biersdorfer, New York Times

The Migration Assistant program included over the last few years with Mac OS X moves pretty much all personal information — user accounts, settings, Keychain password, files, folders and programs — on the old computer over to the new one. As long as your programs are compatible with the newer version of Mac OS X, they should run fine, but you may want to look for any free software updates that may be available.

PhotoReviewer Review: Quick And Easy Image Triage

Dan Frakes, Macworld

PhotoReviewer makes quick and easy work of reviewing and sorting your photos—before you import them into iPhoto, Aperture, or your image-library app of choice.

Organize OS X Fonts Using Font Book Smart Collections

Topher Kessler, CNET

Apple's Font Book utility is a convenient lightweight font manager built into OS X, and while it does not offer some of the advanced features of some third-party font managers, it does offer enough for most average uses. With this utility you can enable and disable fonts, import and preview them, run diagnostics, and repair routines. In addition, you can group them into collections for various uses, be it writing in a specific language, or for tasks like Web design where you might need Web-compatible fonts.

The Latest Virtualization showdown—Parallels Desktop 9 Vs. VMware Fusion 6

Dave Girard, Ars Technica

A Start8 menu for Windows, IT security, and even improved gaming show up this year.

Apple Demands News Site Pull Copy Of iTunes Radio Contract, Claims Copyright Infringement

Greg Sandoval, The Verge

iPhones Sold In HK Won't Get China Warranty

Cyrus Lee, ZDNet

It seems that Apple in China will not support any warranty maintenance or repairs for iPhone 5c and 5c units bought in Hong Kong.

Prices in Hong Kong is also cheaper than other parts of China.

Apple’s BlackBerry Employee-Poaching Party

John Paczkowski, All Things D

“If you are interested in working on the world’s most advanced mobile devices and operating systems as well as alongside other amazing, talented and passionate engineers then Apple may have opportunities for you,” reads an invitation sent via LinkedIn to some BlackBerry employees.

Apple Now Says iPhone 5s Ships In 2-3 Weeks, Customers Seeing mid-November Deliveries

Mark Gurman, 9 To 5 Mac

Apps On iPhone 5s Crashing At Twice The Rate As On Other iPhone 5 Models

Ina Fried, All Things D

Levy said that perhaps the reason the iPhone 5s is seeing more crashes than the equally new iPhone 5c is that, while developers were able to check their apps for compatibility with iOS 7 during several months of beta testing, the new hardware wasn’t available ahead of time.

Comic Life 3 Adds New Collection Of Parametric Image Filters

Dennis Sellers, Apple Daily Report

iPhone 5s Users Report 'Blue Screen Of Death' Reboots

Tom Warren, The Verge

The blue screen reboots appear to be iPhone 5S specific and are largely occurring with Apple's own iWork apps that come free with all new iOS devices. Videos detailing the issue show that multitasking between apps seems to trigger the BSOD. iPhone 5S users are also reporting random reboots during device use.

KeyCue 7.0

Agen G. N. Schmitz, TidBITS

Seven Apps That Take Advantage Of The M7 Motion Coprocessor In The iPhone 5S

Kelly Hodgkins, TUAW

Some are polished fitness trackers and some are basic pedometers, but all of them will give you a peek into the type of information that is being monitored by the M7.

Launch Center Pro 2.0 Review

Federico Viticci, MacStories

Launch Center Pro’s greatest accomplishment is that it allows every kind of user to save time on an iPhone. With version 2.0, everyone will benefit from features like inline photos in messages, photo icons, and built-in Dropbox uploads and shareable links, while advanced users will rejoice for improved x-callback-url support, the remote URL scheme-based launcher, iOS 7 TextExpander support, and expanded action library. With a redesign that makes the app ready for iOS 7 without losing its identity, Launch Center Pro is still accessible for the automation novice and flexible for the iOS automation geek.

Also:

• Launch Center Pro reinvented for iOS 7 (Zac Hall, 9 To 5 Mac)

Tick For iPhone Lets You Create Todos In Style With A Colorful Interface And Uniquely Personal Experience

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

Tick is a new todo app for iPhone that's completely built around iOS 7 and its new color scheme. Beyond that, extra care has been taken so each person can customize and create their own experience.

Yep, Apple's A7 Looks Twice As Fast -- At Least For Fractal Math

Stephen Shankland, CNET

The Frax boost [...] comes chiefly from two changes, Weiss said: the A7's larger number of storage slots, called registers, and the fact that it can perform high-precision calculations faster on numbers stored in floating-point formats.

How To Factory Reset A Mac

Topher Kessler, CNET

If you are selling or donating your old Mac, then you might want to factory reset the system not only to provide the new users with a fresh start, but also to ensure your data is secured from the new owners.

Make Use Of The Clipboard For OS X Commands

Topher Kessler, CNET

OS X includes Terminal commands that can pipe and retrieve data from the clipboard.

Judge: Google’s Tracking Not Harmful

Elizabeth Dwoskin and Rolfe Winkler, Wall Street Journal

U.S. District Judge Sue Robinson wrote that the companies had circumvented the browsers’ settings, allowing users’ personal information to be sold to ad companies. But the judge said that the plaintiffs couldn’t show that they suffered because the companies collected and sold their information.

Apple Releases EFI Firmware Update 2.7 For Mid-2013 MacBook Air

Michael Grothaus, TUAW

Apple has just released an EFI firmware update that fixes those pesky problems when trying to use Windows 8 via Boot Camp.

Review: 1Password 4 For Mac Makes Managing All Your Passwords Easy And Secure

Lester Victor Marks, AppleInsider

Passwords stink. Password policies vary widely from the many sites you choose or have to use, and satisfying them all is hard, and hard to keep up with. That's why 1Password is an invaluable application — and the new 1Password 4 qualifies as a worthy update.

From Bedroom To App Store: How I Made An App On My iPad

Mark Brown, Pocket Gamer

Codea is an iPad app that enables you to make things like "simulations, visual ideas, and interactive creations".

Review: Popular Translator App iTranslate Gets Reimagined For iOS 7

Sarah Guarino, 9 To 5 Mac

Understanding iCloud Backups Of iOS Devices

Kirk McElhearn, Kirkville

'Barbie Dreamhouse' Bug Changes Mac, iPhone Calendar's Gaudy Colors

Gregg Keizer, Computerworld

A bug on Apple's iCloud servers -- the second in the last three months -- turned OS X and iOS user calendars into a dizzying palette of what one customer called "Barbie Dreamhouse" colors.

Delicious Official App For iPhone And iPod Touch Gets Redesigned For iOS 7

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Getting Started With iMovie

Christopher Breen, Macworld

In this first lesson we’ll focus on iMovie’s interface.

Nancy Solomon And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Calendar

Christopher Breen, Macworld

Reader Nancy Solomon is not the first person I’ve heard complain about the size of iOS 7’s text or the way the Calendar app is put together.

Create A PDF From Any Document In OS X

Topher Kessler, CNET

If you can print a document, you can save it as a PDF and use this feature to quickly annotate or add other enhancements to your print job.

Devs Can Now Use All iPhone 5S Colors In Marketing

Michael Grothaus, TUAW

Apple has updated its developer guidelines to allow developers to use all colors of the iPhone 5s in product marketing. Previously developers were only officially allowed to use the black iPhone likeness for marking, though many developers ignored this rule and used the white iPhone as well, suggesting Apple rarely enforces this rule.

How To Move An iTunes Library To An External Drive Or USB Flash Stick

OS X Daily

Take Note, Notability Is Now Optimized For iOS 7

Brent Dirks, AppAdvice

Easily the biggest new feature in version 5.1 is the addition of AirDrop support, so users can simply and easily share notes with people around them.

Cameo Enters The Social Video World With A Clever And Powerful App

Mel Martin, TUAW

One clever feature is the ability to share videos in real time with friends, so if, for example, you're both in different places at a sporting event, you can share each other's clips and build them into your own video creation.

Design Quality And Customer Delight As Sustainable Advantages

John Gruber, Daring Fireball

So the irony here is that iOS vs. Android (or, if you prefer, iPhone and iPad vs. commodity smartphones and tablets) is in fact a replay Mac vs. Windows — but not in the way that most who make the comparison would have you believe. Judging by its actions, Apple is keenly aware of the lessons to be learned from 20 years ago. To wit, this has nothing to do with focusing on raw market share, and everything to do with keeping the pedal to the metal on design and quality. If Apple maintains a lead over its rivals in those regards, the Mac suggests that Apple can occupy a dominant, stable, long-term position as the profit leader in the mobile market as well — a market that is already bigger than the PC market ever was, and unlike the PC market, is still growing.

How We Fixed The iOS7 Forced Logout Bug That’s Been Plaguing So Many Apps

Mang-Git Ng, Loom

When the Loom app is launched in background mode and the phone is not authenticated past the login screen, the keychain file for Loom was returning an empty string for both the login email and password. Thus the Loom app thought that the user had never previously authenticated and presents a login screen for the user upon return to the app, despite the user having previously authenticated and that all application-specific information was intact.

Customers should, on the other hand, be aware of the tradeoff between functionality / convenience and security. Because this is a tradeoff.

“Offers In-App Purchases”

Nik Fletcher

Whilst Apple’s not going to dictate how businesses bring in revenue, it’s very clear that IAP is the way that Apple foresees that mainstream apps should generate revenue. After all, nothing serves Apple’s platform (and Apple’s customers) better than thousands of high quality apps becoming thousands of high quality Free* apps.

Apple Announces New iPhone 5S And 5C Launches For October 25 And November 1

Federico Viticci, MacStories

Flickr iOS 7 Auto-upload App With 1TB Of Storage Blows Photo Stream Out Of The Water

Ben Lovejoy, 9 To 5 Mac

Today’s update to the iOS Flickr app offers auto-uploading of full-res photos to your private Flickr gallery. Couple this to the 1TB of free storage available and you effectively have a Photo Stream style service that can store over half a million photos, rather than simply the last 1,000.

Podcasting State Of The Union

Zac J. Szewczyk

How Not To Write App Release Notes

Steven's Blog

This move really turned me off. It was unnecessary, showed no class whatsoever, and […] breeds hostility within the indie iOS development community.

CloudPaint

Kottke.org

Apple Will Hold Fall iPad Event On October 22

John Paczkowski, All Things D

People familiar with Apple’s plans tell AllThingsD that the company will hold its next invitation-only event on Tuesday, October 22. The focal point of the gathering will be the latest updates to the company’s iPad line, but the new Mac Pro and OS X Mavericks will likely get some stage time as well, I’m told.

Apple Announces Q4 2013 Conference Call For October 28

Cody Fink, MacStories

Instacast Gains Apple A7 64-Bit Processor Support And Other Enhancements

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Evernote Rolls Out Two-Step Verification To All Users

Andrew Kunesh, Macgasm

AT&T U-verse Subscribers Can Now Stream Live TV On iPhone, iPad

Shane Cole, AppleInsider

Review: SlideStory For iOS

Mel Martin, TUAW

iOS 7 Is Making Life More Difficult For Blind Arabic Speakers

Mike Wehner, TUAW

The new Arabic VoiceOver option frequently adds random syllables to words, making it difficult to comprehend, and also has a nasty habit of leaving spaces out between words.

Benchmarks: 'Ultimate' iMac Gets Boost From PCIe Flash Storage, Faster CPU

James Galbraith, Macworld

Hands-on With Capo 3 For Mac: Easily Learn Your Favorite Songs

Seerenity Caldwell, Macworld

The thing I like most about Capo is how easily it invites you to play around with otherwise-complicated musical notation. Its interface manages to pack in all sorts of helpful features without ever intimidating users; it’s the type of program I’d recommend both to master musicians and the kid who’s picked up her first guitar.

Capturing The Aura Of The Scottish Highlands With The iPhone 5S

Jim Richardson, National Geographic

Leaving his trusty Nikon behind, Jim Richardson returns to a favorite spot to photograph, the Scottish Highlands, with a brave new tool—the iPhone 5S.

Want To Evade NSA Spying? Don’t Connect To The Internet

Bruce Schneier, Wired

2013 iMac Review: Apple’s All-In-One Benefits Big From Improved Processor, Graphics

Darrell Etherington, TechCrunch

Apple has provided a fairly standard upgrade for the iMac with these most recent versions, much like it does between major generational shifts for the Mac that happen every few years. But the hidden nature of these changes belies their benefits, especially for users working at the top level of the iMac’s capabilities.

Camera+ iOS App Adds Full-resolution Burst-mode & New iOS 7 Filter Pack

Jordan Kahn, 9 To 5 Mac

Add Time Zone Support To Calendar For iOS

OS X Daily

A Rare Bit Of Apple Journalism

Ken Segall's Observatory

Given that iPhone was still six months away from launch, it’s not unusual that it was so unfinished when Steve unveiled it. What’s unusual is that it was unveiled six months before it shipped — unlike any other product in Apple history. That far before its ship date, every Apple product has serious issues.

Apple’s New iMac Cold To The Touch

John Davidson, Financial Review

If adding touch means a schizoid operating system like Windows 8, then maybe it’s just as well Apple hasn’t gone there.

German Café Owner Takes On Apple - And Wins

DW

While Apple Germany declined to comment on the dispute, cases such as Apple's are commonplace, Bulling says. While the café's logo doesn't look particularly similar to the computer firm's own, and a successful infringement case was never likely, Apple's move might still have been calculated, he says, so that small business would shy away from any and all apple-related themes.

As a layperson, I don't think the cafe's logo resembles Apple's.

21.5-Inch iMac (Late 2013) Review: Iris Pro Driving An Accurate Display

Anand Lal Shimpi, AnandTech

The iMac’s industrial design is beautiful. I’m not sure I’m happy with the bezel thickness around the display, but otherwise I’m happy with the way Apple’s 2012 redesign turned out. Particularly with the 21.5-inch model, the compactness of the new iMac is pretty awesome. It’s a lot like the benefits of having a lightweight LCD TV - you only appreciate it when you have to move the thing, but it’s nice to have regardless of how rarely you move it.

Google Play Vs iTunes Match: Which Mac Music Streaming Service Should You Buy?

Mark Hattersley, Macworld UK

Get Your Mac Ready For Mavericks (OS X 10.9)

Dan Frakes, Macworld

We’re still waiting on a specific date for that release—at WWDC earlier this year, Apple said only "this fall"—but for those aiming to upgrade as soon as the new OS drops, the golden master means that now is the time to start getting your Mac ready for Mavericks.

The number one thing: backups.

(In fact, even if you are not preparing to install Mavericks, you'll still need to do backups.)

How I Almost Lost Every Family Photo I Have

Nate Boateng, Rans & Rambles

Catastrophes like this probably won’t happen to most people. But the thing is, you don’t have a problem until you have a problem. It’s the same cringe-worthy talk we’ve had a million times with our parents about backing up data.

The Abomination Of Ebooks: They Price People Out Of Reading

Art Brodsky, Wired

This is not one of those rants about missing the texture, touch, colors, whatever of paper contrasted with the sterility of reading on a tablet. No, the real abomination of ebooks is often overlooked: Some are so ingrained in the product itself that they are hiding in plain sight, while others are well concealed beneath layers of commerce and government.

The real problem with ebooks is that they’re more “e” than book, so an entirely different set of rules govern what someone — from an individual to a library — can and can’t do with them compared to physical books, especially when it comes to pricing.

Why Care About 30,000 Notes?

Brent Simmons, Inesential.com

I think performance is under-rated by many developers. There are apps that I use and love that block the main thread too often, apps that are otherwise wonderful. I’m disappointed every time I notice. I sigh at the app.

I’m a developer, so I know what’s going on, and I know that it doesn’t have to be that way.

Line App Increases Voice Message Duration, Rejects Messages From Non-Friends

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

SEC Ends Review Of Apple Taxes, Overseas Cash

Daniel Eran Dilger, AppleInsider

Four months after raising questions about Apple's foreign earnings and taxes, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has ended its investigation without plans to take any further action.

Smart Converter Provides Free Media Format Conversion For OS X

Erica Sadun, TUAW

Glyphs Mini 1.5.1 Review - Brings Typography To The Masses

Vic Lenard, Macworld UK

Best Buy Drops the Price of iPhone 5c to $50

Joanna Stern, ABC News

According to Best Buy, customers will get a $50 gift card with the phone and can apply that to the $99.99 device, bringing the phone cost down to $50.

Also:

• Two Weeks After Launch, Walmart Drops Price of the iPhone 5c to $45 After Best Buy's Offer (Joanna Stern, ABC News)

Review: Night Camera HD - Low Light Photography

Mel Martin, TUAW

Night Camera HD features exposures up to 1 second, a manual ISO 3200 setting for really dark locations, an on-screen histogram, tap to focus and automatic or manual exposure adjustment.

Apple Officially Appeals In Ebook Pricing Case

Laura Hazard Owen, GigaOM

Apple has filed its appeal against federal judge Denise Cote’s verdict in the ebook pricing case. Apple seeks to overturn Judge Cote’s July verdict that it conspired with publishers to fix ebook prices, as well as the September 6 injunction that prohibits Apple from including most-favored-nation clauses in its ebook contracts for five years and requires it to be monitored by a court-appointed external monitor.

And Then Steve Said, ‘Let There Be An iPhone’

Fred Vogelstein, New York Times

An age of darkness ended with a searing light, which shook the earth, and the great device was rendered unto thee.

Bugs & Fixes: When iTunes Warns About Untransferred Items

Ted Landau, Macworld

'I'm The Original Voice Of Siri'

Jessica Ravitz, CNN

Behind this groundbreaking technology there is a real woman. While the ever-secretive Apple has never identified her, all signs indicate that the original voice of Siri in the United States is a voiceover actor who laid down recordings for a client eight years ago. She had no idea she'd someday be speaking to more than 100 million people through a not-yet-invented phone.

Restore Album Art On iOS Devices, And Get The iTunes Store App To Work In iOS 7

Kirk McElhearn, Macworld

Mountain Lion 10.8.5 Supplemental Update

Agen G. N. Schmitz, TidBITS

Apple has released a supplemental update to OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.5 with a couple sleep-related fixes, including a bug that could cause external drives to be ejected after your Mac goes to sleep and a problem that prevented HDMI audio from working after waking from sleep.

iTunes 11.1.1

Agen G. N. Schmitz, TidBITS

In addition to improving stability (a promise made with each new update), the release fixes a bug that could cause movies with iTunes Extras to display incorrectly and a problem with deleted podcasts.

Apple Pulls App That Helped Chinese Internet Users Over The Great Firewall

Elliot Hannon, Slate

A free app once available at Apple’s App Store in China that allowed internet users to circumvent the so-called “Great Firewall” has been removed by the company. The app, called OpenDoor, was removed from the store in July with no explanation or notification, reports Radio Netherlands.

New Book Erects Photographic Shrine To Apple

Betsy McKay, Wall Street Journal

"Iconic: A Photographic Tribute to Apple Innovation," documents every Apple product ever created, from the Apple I computer to the iPad mini.

Secure Your Deleted Files In OS X

Topher Kessler, CNET

When you delete files in OS X, by default the system will simply remove the file's entry from the drive's index, which simply allocates the space used by the file as free for other uses. However, while this logically deletes the file, on conventional hard drives the data structure of the file is still intact and with special data recovery software can be read through and potentially recovered.

This means that if you store an important document on an external hard drive and then decide to delete the file, its contents will still be on the drive and may be recoverable. However, Apple does offer a few approaches for removing the residual data from a file that you are going to delete, or which has already been deleted.

Sustainability And The Mac App Store

Dan Counsell, Realmac Software Blog

We had a lot of users saying they wouldn’t buy the new version at full price, they’d just wait for it to go on sale.

This was heartbreaking to read.

Remember JCPenny's former CEO and his failed attempt to move the department store from a discount-and-sales-every-other-day store to a fair-price-no-discount store?

Rdio Launches Free Service On iOS, Android

Steven Sande, TUAW

Apple Sweats The Details With Its New Headquarters

Scott Herhold, San Jose Mercury News

For me, the compelling detail was the trees. The environmental impact report says Apple plans to plant more than 6,200 trees, though it has to remove as many as 3,600 in construction. Dan Whisenhunt, Apple's director of real estate and facilities, explained that the company has been hand-selecting oaks in northern California for the site.

You knew then Steve Jobs' DNA had not vanished.

Chrome For iOS Bug Shows Private Browsing Search History In Google Mobile Search Bar

Darrell Etherington, TechCrunch

It turns out that when you use the search/address bar in Incognito mode in Chrome, that history will show up when you return to standard browsing in Google’s mobile website search bar.

Google has gotten back to us to let us know that this is an unfortunate but unavoidable loophole that comes with building a browser on iOS. It’s noted in the company’s support docs around Incognito mode.

Google owns the browser, the servers, and the service, (though not the rendering engine on iOS) and still manages to 'blame' "platform limitation"?

Apple To Promote Mac Apps For Education And Enterprise With New Volume Purchase Program

Mark Gruman, 9 To 5 Mac

Apple has informed Mac developers that it is preparing to launch the ability for educational institutions and developers to purchase apps from the Mac App Store in volume for a discount.

Redesigning For Ios 7

Allen Pike, Steamclock Software

As enjoyable as a visual refresh is, though, we’re more excited about what comes from building an app from the ground up using the new navigation methaphors and APIs.

The iPhone 5S Motion Sensors Are Totally Screwed Up

Mario Aguilar, Gizmodo

Since the iPhone 5S landed in the hands of new owners a few weeks ago, there have been reports that on-board sensors like the gyroscope, compass, and accelerometer haven't been working properly on some devices. We've confirmed the new iPhone's failings on our own. It's not just off. It's embarrassing.

Apple Acquires Cue, Personal Assistant App For The iPhone And iPad

Yoni Heisler, TUAW

Cue works by combing through a user's varied internet accounts, determining what's useful, and then aggregating it all into a single "intelligent" snapshot.

Adobe Says Almost 3M Customers’ Information Compromised In Sophisticated Attack

Jordan Kahn, 9 To 5 Mac

Arkin says Adobe’s ongoing investigation has found that the attackers have accessed Adobe IDs and encrypted passwords for approximately 2.9 million customers, but that it does “not believe the attackers removed decrypted credit or debit card numbers.” They were, however, able to get their hands on names, encrypted credit or debit card numbers, expiration dates, and customer order information.

How To Make A Vesper: 1.007

Dave Wiskus, Vesper

Why 2014 Will Be A Great Year For IPhone Users

Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Grid

Right now, I see a an attractive phone with a terrific camera, a fingerprint sensor that makes my life less annoying 60 times a day, gaming abilities that make me want to play more games, a mobility sensor that despite my worst instincts will probably encourage me to exercise more, and enough raw speed that iOS 7’s complicated cinematic user interface effects seem like an instinctive an unobtrusive feature.

And that’s certainly good enough. I also can’t help but imagine what we might see over the course of the next year. Apple doesn’t add features to impress reviewers. They add features because they have larger goals in mind … and not all of those goals are revealed alongside the launch of a new device.

How To Unfreeze A Frozen Phone

Nick Mediati, TechHive

iMac Review: Modest Gains For The New Entry-level Haswell iMac

James Galbraith, Macworld

1Password 4 For Mac Better Than Ever

Josh Centers, TidBITS

With all of these improvements and refinements, getting the new version is a no-brainer if you’re entitled to a free upgrade, and if not, there’s never been a better time to invest in 1Password. It’s one of the best investments you can make in your online security.

Netflix 5.0 For iOS Adds AirPlay Streaming And HD Video For iOS 7

Michael Grothaus, TUAW

SlowCam Lets You Record Slow Motion Videos In Real Time On Any iOS 7 Device

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Fingerprints As Access Tokens

Daniel Jalkut, Bitsplitting.org

Most authentication systems in society are scaled appropriately for the context in which they are deployed.

Apple's iTunes Chief Eddy Cue On The iTunes Festival And iTunes Radio

Jason Adams, Entertainment Weekly

Four Problems With iOS 7: Crashing, Messages, Siri, And Audio

Adam C. Engst, TidBITS

These bugs are far from universal, but they have affected both us and other iOS 7 users, and are worth watching for in your use.

At Apple Campus 2, Security Will Be A Priority

Chris O'Brien, Los Angeles Times

If you visit Apple's current headquarters at 1 Infinite Loop in Cupertino, you can drive around the road that circles the buildings, and even park and walk right into the store on campus.

But at Apple Campus 2, it will be a different story. The goal is to cut off public access as completely as possible. It will create what one former city official described as a "moat" in northeast Cupertino.

How To Check For And Fix OS X Boot Drive Errors

Topher Kessler, CNET

HandBrakeBatch Review: Easy-does-it Batch Video Conversion

Christopher Breen, Macworld

HandBrake can handle batch conversion of video files, but HandBrakeBatch makes the process even easier.

InstaWeather Pro 3.0 Adds New Social Features And iOS 7 Enhancements

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Dealing With The Quirks Of iOS 7

Christpher Breen, Macworld

Lately I’ve been bombarded with questions regarding tiny problems too small to consume an entire column space. But that cup now overfloweth, and so, onward.

Fractal Kings Return With A Breathtaking iOS App

Jackie Dove, Macworld

It's The Little Things: What We Like And Don't Like In iOS 7

Macworld

Now that we’ve been living with iOS 7 for a while, we’ve had a chance to uncover some little things we might not have noticed at first. Some of those little things are good, others not so much. Here’s our list.

I really love the Control Center. (Makes me wonder if I should have jail-broken my iPhone previously.)

I really (still) hate pressing the home button, because I know some day the home button will be broken. Apple should put a home button in Control Center. And maybe also a Siri button.

iTunes Radio’s Six Skip Limit Makes Listening Complicated

Kirk McElhearn, Kirkville

I find myself quickly hitting my six-skip limit on several stations. Because of this, I move on to something else; or stop listening to iTunes Radio.

I had a friend who, back in the era of over-the-air radio as the main source of music, will just switch to another station whenever she found something she didn't like.

iMessages To Nowhere?

Wall Street Journal

Apple Inc. said it’s aware of a glitch in iOS7 that is disrupting some iMessage texts and is working on a fix to quell mounting complaints after the company released the biggest overhaul of its iPhone operating system in years.

The most frequent complaint is that messages appear to be sent, but later appear with a big red exclamation point indicating they did not go through.

Apple's Homepage Circa 2001 Shows Us How Far We've Come

Mike Wehner, TUAW

The highlight of the site is a fancy graphic showing off the then-new iBook. The laptop was capable of interfacing with a whole bunch of state-of-the-art devices such as CD players, digital cameras and camcorders, PDAs and Apple's own UFO-shaped AirPort.

I still have two of the type of devices shown in the picture: a laptop (MacBook Air), and a Wi-fi base station (Apple's previous generation).

Fingerprints Are Usernames, Not Passwords

Dustin Kirkland, From The Canyon Edge

But biometrics cannot, and absolutely must not, be used to authenticate an identity. For authentication, you need a password or passphrase. Something that can be independently chosen, changed, and rotated.

Scribd Challenges Amazon And Apple With ‘Netflix For Books’

Cade Metz, Wired

Spotify did it for music. Netflix did it for movies. And now, Trip Adler and Scribd are doing it for books.

The 29-year-old entrepreneur and his six-year-old San Francisco startup just unveiled an online subscription service that gives you unlimited access to a large library of digital books for a flat monthly fee, including titles from big-name publishing house HarperCollins.

Machine Language: How Siri Found Its Voice

Lessley Anderson, The Verge

Inside the art of making computers talk.

Apple Issues MacBook Pro With Retina Display, MacBook Air Software Updates To Solve Battery Bugs

Mark Gurman, 9 To 5 Mac

Siri Can Flip Coins, Roll Dice

David Chartier, Finer Things In Tech

iTunes 11: Shuffle Your Entire Music Library

Kirk McElhearn, Kirkville

The "Bad Guys" Of Engineering: What Defines "Design-Centric" Companies Like Apple

Austin Carr, Co.Design

"Apple let the designers come up with the best possible design, then had engineers figure out how to actually make it work."

Apple's Spaceship Finally Getting Ready To Land

Patrick May, San Jose Mercury News

On Tuesday afternoon, the company and city officials will hold a public discussion that could help determine the building's fate, allowing political leaders and the public to weigh in on the completed environmental impact study and learn how Apple intends to address concerns that have been raised.

Dropbox 2.4 Released For Mac OS X, Brings Mavericks Support, iPhoto Importer, More

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Contexts Simplifies Window Switching In OS X

Thorin Klosowski, Lifehacker

Parallels Desktop 9 For Mac Review

Cliff Joseph, IT Pro

Parallels Desktop is an invaluable tool for those who use a Mac at work, but who need to run legacy apps accessible only via Windows.

Use Quick Look From The Trackpad In OS X

Topher Kessler, CNET

Simply use three fingers to tap the trackpad, and the current item under the mouse cursor will be targeted for Quick Look.

How To Decrease Your iCloud Storage

Dave Caolo, TUAW

No doubt many of you have received emails from Apple prompting you to either reduce the amount of iCloud storage you're using, if you're above the basic 5 GB, or pay for an extended plan. I opted to avoid paying and spent some time getting myself back down to 5 GB. Here's how you can reduce the amount of iCloud storage you're using.

Simple Photo Collages With Diptic PDQ

Federico Viticci, MacStories

In-App Purchase – The Future Is Here

Entrepreneurial Seduction

I believe that IAP is a powerful tool that allows us to raise the ceiling on our app pricing.